Erin Shields

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Erin Shields
Occupationactress, playwright
NationalityCanadian
Period2000s-present
Notable worksIf We Were Birds, Paradise Lost

Erin Shields is a Canadian stage actress and playwright. [1] She is best known for her play If We Were Birds, which won the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2011 Governor General's Awards, [2] and was a nominee for the 2010 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play. [3] The play premiered at the Summerworks Festival in 2008 before being mounted by Tarragon Theatre in 2010. [1]

Her other plays include Barrel Crank, [4] Montparnasse (cowritten with Maev Beaty), [5] The Unfortunate Misadventures of Masha Galinski, [6] The Epic of Gilgamesh (up to the part when Enkidu dies) and Soliciting Temptation, [7] and Beautiful Man. [8]

Her play Paradise Lost, a theatrical adaptation of John Milton's Paradise Lost , was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2018 Governor General's Awards. [9]

In 2021, she wrote "Here We Are," a 90-minute audio poem piece to mark the first anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Playwright Erin Shields nurtures two new creations". Toronto Star , April 14, 2010.
  2. "Three Toronto writers take home Governor General’s awards (two, somehow, for “bird” books)". Toronto Life , November 15, 2011.
  3. "Eric Peterson’s stagecraft brings three Dora nominations". Toronto Star , June 2, 2010.
  4. "A work in progress". St. Catharines Standard , August 8, 2012.
  5. "Theatre Review: Of models and nude muses in Montparnasse" Archived 2014-11-20 at archive.today . National Post , March 26, 2011.
  6. "Masha mashup". Now , November 29, 2007.
  7. "Theatre Review: Soliciting Temptation is the season’s best new Canadian play" Archived 2014-11-20 at archive.today . National Post , April 13, 2014.
  8. Sumi, Glenn (5 August 2015). "SummerWorks Preview: Erin Shields flips the gender switch". NOW . Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  9. "The finalists for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for drama". CBC Books, October 3, 2018.
  10. "Here We Are". Crow's Theatre.